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HP Acquisition of PALM and the future

Posted April 29th, 2010 by Sidd | No Comments

I’m glad that somebody bought PALM finally! I own no stock in either PALM, Inc. (PALM) or Hewlett Packard Company (HPQ) but I didn’t want to see WebOS die. I don’t own a WebOS phone but it was a strong contender to be my next phone. Of course my hope was that HTC would take [...]

Year of the Tech Stock?

Posted October 23rd, 2009 by Sidd | No Comments

The Nasdaq is up almost 50% this year while the Dow is up almost 20%. Tech stocks are reporting stellar earnings with Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google amongst others all beating estimates.
If the trend continues, 2009 will really be the year of the tech stock. And it isn’t even really that much of a bubble. [...]

Miscrosoft Miss

Posted July 24th, 2009 by Sidd | 1 Comment

Looks like I’m Posting a lot about Microsoft lately. Miscrosoft missed analyst estimates and revenues were down 17% and earnings down more than 1.2 billion$ (yes that is billion) as compared to last year.
Maybe Vista is to blame, maybe the bad economy though Intel’s results would indicate otherwise. Every few weeks I hear about [...]

Intel, Google and More Tech Earnings Reports. Good or Bad?

Posted July 17th, 2009 by Sidd | 1 Comment

Intel and Google, both companies that I own stock in, both recently reporting. Intel reported spectacular results on Tuesday (as compared to analyst estimates and the previous quarter, still below last years results). Intel also upped it’s guidance. Positive news from Intel lifted the market up.
Google was the next to report and even though Google [...]

What is wrong with Microsoft?

Posted June 15th, 2009 by Sidd | 1 Comment

I’m not an MS investor but I do use Windows everyday and I also have a really nice Windows Mobile phone.
As a developer, I figured, let’s see what it takes to make Windows Mobile touchscreen app. I quickly figured out that the free versions of Visual Studio (called Express editions) do not support mobile application [...]